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for nearly a century. Even so, three objections have been raised regarding it: the high price, great size (making it difficult to handle) and low artistic quality (many criticisms were made to the drawings by James Thornhill, particularly regarding the representation of
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and Abraham Sharp. It was preceded by the opus "Stellarum inerrantium Catalogus Britannicus" (or simply "British Catalogue", published in 1725, with 2919 stars).
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Finally, the changes in the positions of stars (the original observations were made in the 1690s), led to an update made in 1776 by the
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The publication enjoyed immediate success, becoming the standard reference for professional
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was published only ten years after the death of Flamsteed, by his widow, assisted by
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published posthumously in 1729, based on observations made by the
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Stephenson, Bruce; Bolt, Marvin; Friedman, Anna Felicity (2000).
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The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History
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to try to improve the Atlas. In 1745, he produced the "
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The names of the constellations are in French (not in
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In 1795, a third edition was published, produced by
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Index


Derby Museum and Art Gallery
John Flamsteed
James Thornhill
Astronomy
star atlas
First Astronomer Royal
John Flamsteed
constellations
Greenwich
Rococo
James Thornhill
planispheres
Abraham Sharp

telescopic
Joseph Crosthwait
constellations
Bayer
Uranometria
Ptolemy
Orion, as seen in Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis.
Orion, as seen in Bayer's Uranometria.
astronomers
Aquarius
John Bevis
Uranographia Britannica
French
engineer
Jean Nicolas Fortin

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